Kakine 1

Chapter 1

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Top right: The latest A Certain Series spinoff comic!!
Top left: The hero who fell into darkness will now have his story revealed.
Title: A Certain Magical Index Side Story: A Certain Scientific Dark Matter
       Chapter 1
Credit: Author: Kamachi Kazuma
        Art: Kisaragi Nankyoku
        Character Designs: Haimura Kiyotaka

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Guys: Is this the girl from the rumors?

Guys: Hell, yeah! You stay put and don't even think about trying anything.
Guys: So what do we do?

Guys: A bunch of labs apparently want her.
Guys: Okay! Let's go sell her off!

Guys: Wait, what happened to the guy who went ahead of us?
Guys: Probably had to take a leak.
Guys: Let's take her with us.
SFX: Tug

SFX: Boom
Guys: Whoa!
Guys: Ah!?
Guys: What!?

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SFX: Crunch
Kakine: Oh, there you are.

Kakine: So you're Yuzuriha Ringo.

Ringo: Kakine...
Ringo: Teitoku?
Kakine: Were you busy?
Kakine: Not that I care. I'm only interested in the girl.

SFX: Shoo shoo
Kakine: You all can leave.

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Guys: The...

Guys: The hell we can!!
SFX: Gather
Guys: Who the hell're you!?
Guys: Shove him off the edge!!

SFX: Run

Kakine: And here I was offering to let you escape unharmed.

Kakine: Why do weaklings insist on getting themselves destroyed?
SFX: Sizzle

Kakine: Now then.
Guys: Ugh
Guys: Owww
Guys: Ghh

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Kakine: There's a lot I want to ask you.
SFX: Chk
Guys: Dammit.

Guys: You're just a weakling who gets by on his powers!!

SFX: Wham
Guys: Gwah

Kakine: Stay there on the floor.

SFX: Crack
Guys: Gwohhhh

Kakine: Let's try this again.
Kakine: I have business with you, Yuzuriha Ringo.

Kakine: Because you are a survivor of the Dark May Project.

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DA: The target has moved.
DA: Are they okay?

DA: Yes, a boy is accompanying her.

DA: A portion of the building's wall crumbled earlier.
DA: That boy is probably Level 3 or higher.

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DA: Without voice data, we can't say what their connection is.
DA: I would love to protect her from evil immediately, but we need to be careful.

DA: The other DA branches do not seem to have picked up on this information.
Lead DA: Such weak justice.

Lead DA: So only our DA Arouse can bring about DA's true justice.

Lead DA: We are the bearers of absolute justice.

DA: We are the bearers of absolute justice.
SFX: Together

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Box: The Dark May Project.
Box: An experiment run on Child Errors, children who were abandoned in Academy City.
Box: The thought patterns and calculation methods of Accelerator, Academy City's #1 Level 5, were analyzed.
Box: By implanting a portion of them inside espers, the project hoped to strengthen their Personal Reality and redirect their powers.

Kakine: That's what it says...
Kakine: but what kind of garbage project cares about Accelerator's thoughts?

Kakine: Hey, what's it feel like to have someone else's thoughts implanted in you?

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SFX: Reach

SFX: Scatter

Kakine: I think you're mistaken about something.

Kakine: Did you think I saved you from those thugs?

Kakine: So you think I'm safe?

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Ringo: Kakine...
Ringo: Teitoku?

Kakine: That's right.
Ringo: Cough cough
Kakine: I'm asking because you're my only option.

Kakine: The project failed because the researchers died?
Kakine: What, every last one of them kicked the bucket?

Ringo: One of the other kids in the experiment...
Ringo: went nuts.

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Kakine: So you can hold a conversation after all.

Kakine: I'm after Accelerator's calculation patterns.
SFX: Vrrrr
Kakine: I want your help to defeat him.

Kakine: And no.
Kakine: You don't have a choice.

Ringo: Fine.

Ringo: But...
SFX: Droop
Ringo: I...

SFX: Slump
Kakine: Hey, don't fall asleep.

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SFX: Rub
Ringo: Nhh

SFX: Zzz
Kakine: Wow, she really did fall asleep.

SFX: Flip

Kakine: Well, I don't need it right away.
Kakine: And she couldn't think or calculate properly if I forced her up.
Kakine: I couldn't get accurate data.

SFX: Zzz
SFX: Flip

Kakine: But who falls asleep right now?

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MH: It's hard to believe...
MH: she has Accelerator's thoughts implanted in her.
MH: She's too soft or something.
Yobou: Maybe she's just sleepy.

Kakine: She had her brain messed with against her will.

Kakine: It could be the experiment's doing.

SFX: Thock

Kakine: Or it's just in her personality...
Kakine: to fall asleep next to the guy who strangled her.

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Kakine: I'm not sure threatening her will work too well.

Yobou: Should we try another Dark May Project survivor?
Yobou: It seems some have entered the Dark Side.

Kakine: Nah.
Kakine: Make too big a move and someone might figure out what we're up to.
Kakine: Anyway.

SFX: Thock
Kakine: We have her already.

MH: It doesn't sound like you'll need me for a while.
MH: So can I go rest in the other room?

Kakine: You go check on Accelerator's situation.
Kakine: I want to know if he really is in the hospital with brain damage.

MH: Right away?
Kakine: Right away.

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Kakine: Don't take your eyes off Yuzuriha. I'll be in the next room.
Yobou: Sure.

SFX: Shut

Kakine: Accelerator's calculation methods and thought patterns.

SFX: Flop

Kakine: I will acquire that key to negotiating with the top of Academy City.

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SFX: Zzz

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SFX: Vvv vvv

Text: Absent again? You've barely been to school lately, so what's up? An elite can't be missing so much school!!

Kakine: Tch.

SFX: Toss
Kakine: Wait, it's this late already?
Kakine(outside): Guess I'll take a shower.

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SFX: Growwwwwl
Kakine: First sleepiness and now hunger, huh?

SFX: Toss
Kakine: Let's go.

Kakine: Good work. You can leave now.
Yobou: Sure.

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SFX: Stare

Kakine: You got a problem with what I graciously bought for you?
Kakine: Hurry up and eat it.

SFX: Stare

SFX: Ah

SFX: Munch

Kakine: What?

Ringo: Th-this is...
Ringo: good.
Ringo: This food...
Ringo: is so good.
Kakine: A galette's nothing special.
Kakine: Do you only eat Japanese food?

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Ringo: Our food was always...
Ringo: square crunchies...
Ringo: green blobbies...
Ringo: pink stickies...
Ringo: or IVs.
SFX: Munch munch
Kakine: Worse than rations?
Kakine: Even frontline soldiers eat better than that these days.

Kakine: So the food was as garbage as the concept behind the project, huh?
Kakine(outside): Hah

Ringo: This is...
Ringo: really good.
Ringo: It's amazing!

SFX: Munch munch
SFX: Chew chew
Kakine: Oh...

SFX: Stare
SFX: Sniff sniff

Kakine: You put that on the fries.

SFX: Scoop
Kakine: Heyyy.

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Ringo: It's good.
Ringo: And strong.
Ringo(outside): Here
Kakine(outside): No, thanks.
Kakine: You aren't supposed to eat it on its own.

Kakine: Now that your stomach's full, let's get down to business.

Ringo: The Dark May Project.

Ringo: Why do you...
Ringo: want Accelerator's calculation patterns?
Ringo: Do you want to fight him?

Kakine: That's not my goal.
Kakine: It's just a means to an end.

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Ringo: What is your goal?

Ringo: You can't say? You don't want to say?
Kakine: None of your business, kid.

Ringo: Did you lose something?

Kakine: I said it's none of your business, kid.

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Ringo: I'm not kid.
Ringo: I'm Yuzuriha Ringo.

Kakine: My bad, my bad.
Kakine: It is annoying when people won't use your name.
Kakine: Yujuriha-

Ringo: Yujuriha...
Kakine: I said it right.

Ringo: No, you didn't.
SFX: Thud
Kakine: I said I said it right!
Ringo: But you didn't.

Kakine: Man, I'm thirsty. I'll go buy more drinks.
Ringo: He didn't.

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Ringo: Kakine's lucky.

Ringo: He's useful, and...

DA: Yuzuriha Ringo, correct?

DA: We are with Anti-Skill.
DA: Please remain calm. Everything is under control.
DA: We are protecting a runaway girl.

SFX: Clatter

Ringo: Who are you?

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Ringo: No.
Ringo: I don't wanna go.

Ringo: No!
Girl: This looks bad.
Boy: Wow, you're right.

DA: Everyone, she is an out-of-control esper.
DA: Please stay away for your own safety.

DA: Please remain calm.
DA: We will handle this.

DA: Yes, we will...

DA: We will rehabilitate her.

DA: The target has been secured. This is not a problem.
SFX: Pull
Ringo: I'm not going.

SFX: Kick
Ringo: I said...
Ringo: no!

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SFX: Wham

Ringo: Kah...

DA: Be a good girl and don't resist.
DA: We are doing this for you and for justice.

DA: Relax. You don't need to run away.
DA: We will protect you and manage you.

SFX: Squeeze
Ringo: Manage me?

DA: You will have a proper life in the proper environment.
DA: You need not live in these inferior conditions.
DA: This is an act of justice.
DA: You psychologically immature children can be led astray by your powers...
DA: so we adults must watch over you.

DA: We are the bearers of absolute justice.

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Ringo: Hah.
Ringo: Justice?

SFX: Lick

Ringo: Don't make me laugh.

SFX: Crack

Kids: Crap.
Kids: Let's get outta here.

Kakine: Stop.


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Kakine: I saw people running away, but what's going on here?

DA: Hey, you. We are working to protect a runaway girl.

DA: She might lose control of her powers, so stand back.

Kakine: Teachers?
Kakine: No, you're not teachers.

Kakine: You reek of the shitty villains in our world.

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DA: Us? Villains?

Kakine: You didn't realize? Then you're worse than villains.

SFX: Twitch

DA: Our actions are justice.
DA: WE are justice.

SFX: Crunch
Kakine: Never doubting your own righteousness seems like the biggest kind of evil to me.

SFX: Toss
Kakine: And that means you, trash.

SFX: Bounce

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Kakine: What? Teachers aiming guns at an unarmed student?

DA: Not a problem. These are perfectly safe mock bullets used to suppress delinquent students.

Kakine: Hm?

DA: Yes, perfectly safe.
DA: Because none of the students in our tests died no matter how many times we shot them!
DA: These weapons keep you alive so you can understand your crimes through the pain!

Kakine: They are perfectly safe!

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SFX: Blam
DA: If you are too evil to understand justice...
DA: then we must provide you with guidance as well!!

SFX: Fwoosh

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Kakine: What do words like safe and dangerous matter?
Kakine: My wings can withstand at least a Railgun blast.

DA: Th-those wings.
DA: Wait.
DA: The #2!?

Kakine: Seems like you know who you picked a fight with.

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Kakine: Yes, I am Dark Matter.
Kakine: I am Kakine Teitoku.

DA: But why would Academy City's #2 get in our way!?

DA: Why is he obstructing our justice...
DA: when he has the talent of a Level 5?
DA: How sad.
DA: Can he not see that we are justice?

Kakine: What are they talking about?

Lead DA: Calm down, comrades.

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SFX: Appear

Lead DA: This just means that even Academy City's #2 is in need of our guidance.

Kakine: Huh?

Lead DA: I will teach you that power must be used responsibly.

Lead DA: So put away those stupid wings.

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Kakine: Only one of us is stupid and it ain't me, shithead.

SFX: Gwoosh

SFX: Wham

SFX: Slide slide slide

SFX: Twitch

Lead DA: Hm, so this is Dark Matter.

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Lead DA: But my armor is meant for use against espers.
Lead DA: Its composite metal armor and the shock absorbing gel within...
Lead DA: can weaken and negate any form of attack.

SFX: Gachunk

Lead DA: You poor children simply did as you were told...
Lead DA: and developed your powers without understanding justice.
SFX: Bam

Kakine: Ha ha. Are you trying to capture me with that thing?

SFX: Zap
Lead DA: Can you laugh off 10 million volts, several times the military models?

Kakine: Wouldn't that be deadly?
Kakine: What happened to the safety of mock bullets?

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Lead DA: You will only die because you do not understand absolute justice.

Lead DA: Pitiful child.

Lead DA: We must manage and rehabilitate that imperfect power of yours.

SFX: Crunch
Kakine: Is that so?

Kakine: But that armor...
Kakine: was only made with normal espers in mind, right?

Lead DA: What?

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Kakine: The normal rules mean nothing...
Kakine: against my Dark Matter!!
SFX: Boom

Lead DA: This can stop the energy of any form of atta-

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Lead DA: Nwohhhhh!

Lead DA: What, how!?
Lead DA: What happened!?

SFX: Splat splat

SFX: Wobble
Lead DA: Nwohhhh

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SFX: Splat

Kakine: Are you okay?

Ringo: Yeah.
SFX: Step step

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SFX: Roar

SFX: Kssssshhhhh
SFX: Squeeeeeal

Kakine: A riot suppression acoustic weapon!?

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SFX: Shatter

Kakine: Tch. They retrieved some of them.

Kakine: They'll probably attack again.

Ringo: So pretty.
Kakine: Huh?

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Ringo: Your wings...
Ringo: are pretty.

Kakine: Are you making fun of me?
Ringo: Hm? No.

Ringo: Your wings are pretty.

Ringo: Kakine.
Ringo: You're...
Ringo: really cool.

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Ringo: You're...
Ringo: cool!

Kakine: Let's go.

Accel: What?

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Accel: What idiot was having a party first thing in the morning?
LO: You can't underestimate family restaurant hamburger steak either...
Esther: I see, I see.
LO: says Misaka as Misaka argues what you should order when we get there!

Umidori: Yuzuriha Ringo-chan...
Umidori: huh?

Umidori: It's been a while.

Amata: What? Did you see something amusing?

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Amata: Souji.

Souji: Yes!
Souji: I've done it, Amata-san!

Souji: I've lit the fuse.

Text: To be continued?

Margin: Several parts of Academy City's "darkness" are on the move!?